17+ years of experience in programming, networking and system administration. Key projects include: design; architecture; integration; implementation; monitoring; automation of enterprise hybrid networks. Vital skills of focus on project and complex problem solving.

Principal Engineer @ - Big data research and performance testing (Hadoop, InfluxDB and Aerospike) - Design and develop enterprise self-healing to detect and fix server and application problems fully automated - Measurement TCP retransmit over internet between different locations around the worlds. - Develop anycast IPv4/IPv6 monitoring application. - Enhance self-healing system to grow horizontally. From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaSr. Software engineer @ - The enterprise monitoring and self-healing application developer. - Develop and manage cross-platform automated monitoring architecture, standardizes metrics collection, Integrate monitoring alarms with other workflow systems and contribute to self-healing automation. - Building self-healing application for systems, network, and process automation. - Research and develop end-to-end application and infrastructure monitoring for engineering new monitoring solutions. - Create and maintain operational dashboards for both real-time and trended views for multiple levels of users (Operations, Engineering, Development, Business and Executive). - Create and support overall monitoring and performance management over the enterprise IPV4/6 Network. From November 2010 to May 2015 (4 years 7 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaSr. Network Engineer @ - Establish transit and peering connectivity by setup of new circuits and BGP. - Troubleshoot network issues and assist other groups in identifying and resolving system and application malfunctions. - Configure and maintain core routers and rack switches (Cisco / Juniper / Brocade / Blade) From February 2009 to November 2010 (1 year 10 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaCEO/CTO @ - Design and implement the network and security. - Network and security consultant. Top customers : British American Tabaco (BAT), Nokia Siemens Networks, Inpex and Mitsubishi. From January 2007 to January 2009 (2 years 1 month) Sr. Network engineer @ - Security consultant for implementing and managing network for financial industry. - Design and Implement Firewall, IDS, Honeypot and Central alert management From 2005 to 2007 (2 years) IranSr. Network engineer @ Manage two enterprise networks : xDSL and NLOS Wireless, implement routing (BGP,OSPF), Switching (PVST, MST, 802.1s, 802.1w), DSLAM (Ericsson and ZHONE), Security (Netscreen 500, IDP-100, Fortinet, PIX, VPN : (L2TP, GRE, IPSEC (ISAKMP) ), QoS (Quality of Service) and building monitoring applications for system and network. From 2002 to 2005 (3 years) Network engineer @ Manage Cisco network and NT4/Red Hat systems Setup and maintain Voice Over IP Developing with Visual C++ (ISAPI, MFC, DLL, COM), ASP,PHP,Javascript to provide ISP accounting and monitoring applications. Maintain satellite DVB, VSAT From 1997 to 2002 (5 years) Iran

BS, Computer science @ Islamic Azad University From 1995 to 2000 Diploma, Mathematics @ Haft-Tir High school From 1991 to 1994 Mehrdad Arshad Rad is skilled in: Python, Big Data, Hadoop, Perl, Cisco Technologies, Firewalls, Networking, Security, BGP, VPN, TCP/IP, Linux, OSPF, Routing, VoIP